MDK-Professional provides USB Device and USB Host support for embedded systems. The USB Device Interface uses standard device driver classes that are available with all Windows PCs. No Windows host ...

Now that TCP/IP connectivity is becoming common for embedded systems, designers have to deal with the problems of setting up, monitoring, and troubleshooting remote devices. One approach is to make ...

Where code meets reality, embedded systems come at that intersection, demanding precision, efficiency, and careful planning.

Structures (or “structs” in C) allow you to group several related variables and treat them as one unit. They are a mechanism for extending the type system of the C language by introducing user-defined ...

In his most recent column, “A SPIFI new idea,” Jack Gannsle expresses his pleasure in the capabilities of a new flash memory interface from ST Microelectronics, which uses a Serial Peripheral ...

One of the biggest bottlenecks in the software development process for electronic products is that hardware is not available until late in the cycle. That means embedded software developers need to ...

Today, embedded systems are so common that you’d have a hard time looking in any direction without seeing a device which contains one – if you know where to look. Lately, a movement toward embedded as ...

Desktop computers once ruled the computing universe in the distant past that most of us refer to as the early 1990s. But by the turn of the millennium, less than 10 years into their rule, desktops had ...

We've seen in the previous articles how Ada can be used to describe high-level semantics and architecture. The beauty of the language, however, is that it can be used all the way down to the lowest ...